The studio plans to open June 7 with a show, though details aren’t yet set. Call (970) 356-5104 to book a gig or for more information.

The studio is located in the Artwerx building, 924 8th Ave., which has Flare of Art and Andy Nagel’s Mirage video productions business. It also contains an art gallery that features the work of Jill Bailey, owner of Flare of Art, as well as the paintings of Kim Snyder, who rents a small studio in Artwerx. That studio will also have a show in June that will feature the works of students in conjunction with the Greeley Stampede’s Western Art Show. Nagel opened the building this past fall.

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Patrick Callan had a free night, so he wandered the streets of Boulder looking for something to call to him. He wound up at the Blue Note, a small place famous for stars playing in an intimate setting, and got lucky: Guitarist Jorma Kaukonen — known for founding Big Tuna, a spin-off of Jefferson Airplane — was on a stage surrounded by a dozen people.

This was in the 1970s, when Callan lived in Boulder, and yet the concert stuck with him. He liked the performance, but he liked the setting just as much. It felt relaxed. Kaukonen even talked to the audience between sets.

It stuck with him so much, in fact, that Callan plans to open a studio and music venue with the same concept decades later, on June 7. There are some important differences of course, but Callan hopes to capture that same feeling he got that night in Boulder with his Good Vibe Acoustic Studio.

The studio won’t serve alcohol, though customers can expect some finger food and soft drinks, because the focus is on the performer and the music, not the drinks, Callan said. Imagine the unplugged sessions on MTV years ago, and you’ll start to get the idea.

Performances, which should start June 7 as well, will feature a singer-songwriter or band playing a couple acoustic sets surrounded by 30 people at the most. Callan compares it to a music parlor from the 1920s or 30s. But that’s only part of the idea.

It’s a studio, not just a performance venue. Callan is a tenant in the Artwerx building in downtown Greeley owned by Andy Nagel. Nagel’s video production company, Mirage, is also in the building, along with Flare of Art photography and an art gallery. Callan, therefore, will use Nagel’s experience and equipment to record the sessions in front of a live audience.

The studio recordings, both sound and video, will give musicians a way to promote their work on YouTube or a professional sound recording for other sites. Nagel said there’s a way he could live stream concerts on a website as well. The material could be invaluable for northern Colorado musicians Callan would like to see play at Good Vibe.

“You’ll see musicians on YouTube with a shaky video that was taken with a handheld camera, and that’s the only video they have to promote themselves,” Callan said. “We want to be an alternative to that.”

There are many possibilities. Callan could eventually release a CD he’d call the “red sofa recordings” for the couch he bought at the Habitat for Humanity store and reupholstered.

The musicians don’t have to buy or request a recording, Callan said. They could just play in a place that feels more like a small concert hall than a bar or coffee house.

Callan initially worked for a company that develops medical lasers, but he began to have reservations when a defense contractor bought it. When that company wanted to use the lasers more for national defense instead of medicine, he quit and moved from Washington state to Greeley to be near his daughter and grandson.

He decided to put his retirement savings into the studio and thought back to that concert in Boulder.

“As it turns out, this is something I’ve wanted to do for decades,” Callan said, “even though I didn’t know I wanted to do it until now.”